There is a part of me that likes to go in from time to time for those big operatic effects.
The music, borrowing a little from Puccini here, a little from Bernstein there, mixed with Chinese operatic effects, gongs and various improvised instruments using water, paper and stones, is the usual eclectic multicultural mix that Tan specializes in.
They seem tragic and absurd, like nearly everything else that happens in this movie, which is often elusive in its meanings and operatic in its effects.
The Gordon account of the Homestead as a hornet's nest of jealousies and resentments is accurate as to facts but operatic in its effects.
He displayed a jovial attitude during the concert, joking with the audience and singing in a mock operatic style for comedic effect.
Raymond Ericson, reviewing the concert in The Times, described the work as being "like a big, ornate Baroque painting, full of rich decorative effects and operatic swirlings, highlights and contrasts".
The effect is soap-operatic.
The glossy, magisterial New York depicted in "Hudsucker" with operatic sets and tricky special-effects shots has more to do with production values than with the plot about a small-town hick who rises to become head of a corporation.
In the end, though, we all want the same thing: to extend our consumer experience of Game of Thrones, whether through book, TV show, or internet newsgroup, and find in its world all the operatic resonance and cause-and-effect intelligibility missing from ours.
